On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 07:33:10PM +0100, Benjamin Michotte wrote: > opening a mbox with ± 7000 mails : less than 10 seconds. > opening the same in Maildir : 3 minutes... uhhh ... what kind of system did you use for measurement??
on my P100 with a quite old HDD running OpenBSD 2.9 it takes about one minute to open the whole mutt archive of last year (about 9900 messages)... the advantage of Maildir over mbox I see: deleting a single message in a really big mailbox is nothing more than simply deleting one file with mbox it means writing the whole folder again leaving out this one message ..... Not to tell the locking which is obsolete with Maildir, which makes it easier with Mailfolders over NFS as I also use it ;-) -- Christian Ordig Germany
